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US targets 'senior' IS jihadist in Syria's northeast: Centcom

Brazil's real is set for a bumpy ride ahead of the country's election runoff later this month, as political tensions simmer following a surprisingly good performance by President Jair Bolsonaro in the first round, a Reuters poll showed.

UN Human Rights Council rejects holding Xinjiang debate

A crime scene investigation of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines from Russia to Europe has strengthened suspicions of "gross sabotage" involving detonations, Sweden's Security Service said on Thursday.

Canada's new Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is putting pressure on Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government to back new liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects as European countries reach out in a bid to plug energy shortfalls.

Six charged over Indonesia stadium disaster

Ukraine says recaptured vast tracts of key Kherson region

Leaders from Ukraine, Britain and Turkey joined their EU counterparts on Thursday for an inaugural summit of the "European Political Community" aimed at bringing the continent together in the face of Russia's aggression against Ukraine.

Equity markets mostly fell Thursday and the pound retreated once more against the dollar on lingering recession fears despite hopes that the US Federal Reserve will tame the pace of aggressive interest rate hikes.

Global exposure is possible as the "manufacturer may have used the same contaminated material in other products and distributed them locally or exported" them.

Spore the merrier: Boom in mushrooms grown on Belgian beer

Tight race seen as Denmark calls November election

Prominent Egyptian archaeologists have renewed a call for the return of the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum to Egypt, 200 years after the deciphering of the slab unlocked the secrets of hieroglyphic script and marked the birth of Egyptology.

The number of murders reported in the United States rose last year, the FBI said on Wednesday, but it warned that a change in its data collection methods meant that its tally excluded the nation's two largest cities, New York and Los Angeles.

A man toppled two ancient Roman busts in the Vatican Museums on Wednesday, causing moderate damage before being stopped by staff and arrested, a museums source said.

Turkish Cypriots give UN peacekeepers ultimatum: report

Shocks related to the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's war against Ukraine mean the world is unlikely to meet a longstanding goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030, the World Bank said in a new report released on Wednesday.

The passenger also angrily recounted how the airline staff would only talk to their partner instead of facing them.

He has a history of domestic violence and changed her name on his phone to "Amber Heard."

An unidentified family member of the couple that was responsible for releasing the dyes is being charged with harming the environment.

Police in Haiti fired tear gas on Monday at thousands of protesters marching in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, against Prime Minister Ariel Henry's government and its handling of crippling fuel shortages and soaring prices.

At least 15 dead in new Ecuador prison riot

In the densely populated Gaza Strip, a battle for space is pitting the living against the dead as homeless squatters settle in the area's cemeteries while authorities grapple with the growing demand for new housing.

For more than three decades, Iwan Junaedi was a devoted fan of the Indonesian soccer side Arema FC, barely missing a game at the club in the country's top-flight league.

Indonesian police wrongly used tear gas inside a soccer stadium to disperse rioting fans, an internal oversight official said on Tuesday, while the country's soccer federation banned two club officials over the chaos that killed at least 125 people.

In an abandoned tower block damaged by Russian shelling in Ukraine's second city, Olga Kobzar plans to tough out winter for as long as she can without electricity, water and central heating by lighting the gas stove in her kitchen for warmth.

New sanctions by G7 countries on Russia will target its oil and products in three phases, senior U.S.

Saudi desert megacity to host Asian Winter Games

A 27-year-old Russian rapper who was against Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine took his own life to avoid being drafted into the war.